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arthist 101 exam 2
survey of western art exam #2
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/20/2012

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Lamassu, Khorsabad, Assyrian

  • not a sculpture in round, but 2 reliefs, therfore has 5 legs to show front and side view,
  • unibrow
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Lion Hunt, palace of Assurbanipal, Ninevah, Assyrian period

  • king kills lions in many ways and times.
  • continuous narration- same character in multiple postions to tell a story
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ishtar gate, babylon, neo babylonian

  • glazed bricks
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persepolis, persian

  • hypostyle halls,
  •  lamassu-4 legged,
  •  audience hall,
  • registars- showing gifts from afar to give to king,
  • differenciation of scale,
  • king kills mantacor,

 

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Dipylon krater, Athens, Geometric period

  • used as grave marker
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Lady of Auxerre, Daedalic style, orientalizing period

  • looks egyptian (triangular hair)
  • looks like she's smiling as a means to end lips
  • wasp waist

 

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New York Kouros, Archaic

  • experimenting with muscles
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Calf Bearer, Athens Acropolis, Archaic
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Peplos kore, Athens Acropolis, archaic
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Siphnian Treasury, delphi, archaic
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Achilles and Ajax Gaming, Exekias, Archaic

  • one scene taking up majority of vase
  • bilingual: black figure on one side, red figure on other

 

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Revelers, Euthymides, archaic

  • "as euphronias could never do"
  • 3/4 turn
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Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Early Classical

  • architect:libion elis
  • chariot races of pelops and oinomaos
  • old seer reacting to future- looks old, stylized, emotion via gesture
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Kritios Boy, athens acropolis, archaic/early classical

  • first contraposto- body naturally at rest
  • more roundish, boy-like body
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Charioteer, Delphi, Early Classical

  • dedicated by someone who won a chariot race
  • bronze
  • contraposto (shoulders and head tilted)
  • simplified hair, face and clothes
  • rimmed eyes
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Discus Thrower, Myron, Early classical

  • Myronian (compressed time)
  • off-center triangles
  • clues to find copies made by romans: points, high sheen, tree trunks

 

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Spear bearer, Polykleitos, high classical

  • canon of proportions 1:7
  • pliny the elder (author of first textbook of art)
  • muscular, blocky body

 

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parthenon, athens acropolis, high classical

  • more of a treasury than a temple
  • stylobate curvature (optical refinements)
  • metopes: N-greeks v. trojans, S-lapith v. centaurs, E-gods v. giants, W-greeks v. amazons
  • frieze- panathenaic procession
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Erechtheion, athens acropolis, high classical

  • athena polias
  • caryatid porch (wet drapery)
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Nike temple, athens acropolis, high classical

  • persians are shown fat
  • unusual to depict real battle in large scale
  • decorated balustrade around the edge of bastion (wet drapery)
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artemis and apollo, niobid painter, high classical

  • placed figures on differents levels
  • red figure krater
  • slaying children of Niobe
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Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles, classical 4th century

  • first large scale female nude in Greek world
  • put Knidos on the map, helped build it's economy
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Hermes and Dionysos, olympia, praxiteles, classical 4th century

  • S-curve (off center)
  • humanizing effort
  • not good and making babies
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Scraper, lysippos, classical 4th century

  • Lysippos was 1st to write down canon of proportions 1:8
  • twist in space, no single point of view
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Weary Herakles, Lysippos, classical 4th century

  • iconography: recognizing visual attributes of a figure (ex: dorothy and ruby slippers)
  • shown leaning, can't tell why tired from front
  • holding apples behind back
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Battle of Issus Mosaic, pompeii, 100 bc (after classical 4th century painting by Philoxenos)

  • limited color pallet, limited background
  • flat ground, like a stage
  • tessera: little cubes of glass (not used in classical 4th century, showing it to be a roman copy)
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Lysicrates monument, athens, classical 4th century

  • monument for winning athenian play contest
  • first outdoor use of corinthian order

 

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Altar of Zeus, pergamon, hellenistic

  • facial expressions
  • really moving figures
  • overblown bodies
  • aware of past history
  • guiding gaze toward athena "V" formation (reference to athens) by tilting gate
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Dying Gaul, Hellenistic

  • Elements of him not being greek: french fry hair, bridge of nose, necklace, low brow
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Nike, samothrace, hellenistic

  • winged female, descending onto boat, explains crookedness of wings and movement of drapery
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Laocoon, rome, Hellenistic/early imperial

  • may be Roman original in Hellenistic style
  • Or is a Roman copy, and the copier added another son to fit Roman mythology
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etruscan temple plan
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Apollo, Veii, Etruscan

  • terra cotta
  • much more movement
  • clothed
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sarcophagus, cerveteri, etruscan
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Tomb of reliefs, cerveteri, etruscan

  • looks like the inside of a house
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Capitoline she-wolf, rome, etruscan
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Mausolus, mausoleum at Halicarnassus, classical 4th century

  • 1 of seven wonders of anciant world
  • house with collumns on second story and third story had a pyramid
  • tried to render as persians looked: bulky drapery, deeply sunken eyes, smaller head to body, play with light and shadow

 

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Chryselephantine
Definition
mix of ivory and gold
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periclean building program
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nike temple, propyleia, erechtheion, parthenon
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amphora
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krater
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